Arrow in Translation

In Theory

The shortest distance. Between two points. Straight line.
Easy enough. I thought. I felt.
Well. Euclidean. Shapes.
A sense of them. Rhombus. Angles.
Earth. Curvatures. Sports bras.
Hypotenuse. Proportional. Vertical Y.
Ascending. Horizontal X. Perfect.
Axises. Professor’s graph. Closing like a book.
Hands in prayer. Handcuffs. A continuum.
He said. Imagine. It’s zero.
I guess. End of the universe. As I knew it.
In theory. Anyway. Well.
I’d be a fisherman. Fireman. Instead of an astronaut.
Which is like fishing. Stars. In a rocket…

Peace, Love, and Understanding

“What’s so funny ’bout peace love & understanding?” – Elvis Costello

“Notes to Myself (15 Briefs)” from The Lateral by Jake Kennedy

5. Your letter says that you have a broken heart. I don’t think you have a broken heart. When a person really has a broken heart she actually just lays on the street and people walk around her, you fucking asshole.
—Jake Kennedy

Soonest Mended

“…underneath the talk lies
The moving and not wanting to be moved, the loose
Meaning, untidy and simple like a threshing floor.”
—John Ashbery